Fahamu Trustonixsuitesupport@onixsuite.com20181219T0829ZengCOM.ONIXSUITE.97808574903840301Fahamu Books01SKU978-0-85749-038-4020857490389039780857490384159780857490384020100BC017.80in025.08in085.61oz0119.80cm0212.90cm08159gr0101TheAgrarian Question in the Neoliberal EraPrimitive Accumulation and the Peasantry1A0101Onixsuite Contributor ID333Sam MoyoMoyo, SamSamMoyo2A0101Onixsuite Contributor ID332Utsa PatnaikPatnaik, UtsaUtsaPatnaik<p>Utsa Patnaik is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.</p>3A1501Onixsuite Contributor ID49Issa G. ShivjiShivji, Issa G.Issa G.Shivji<p>Issa G. Shivji was professor of law at the University of Dar es Salaam until his retirement in 2006 after 36 years of service. He is currently holding the newly-established Mwalimu Nyerere Research Chair in Pan-African Studies at the same university. Shivji has published over a dozen books and numerous articles including <em>Class Struggles in Tanzania</em> (1976), <em>The Concept of Human Rights in Africa</em> (1989), <em>Let the People Speak: Tanzania down the road to neo-liberalism</em> (2006) and <em>Accumulation in an African Periphery: A Theoretical Framework</em> (2009).</p>01eng0090030360325126110BUS06902010SOC05500012KCM12TVF24Fahamu Subject ClassificationENVIRONMENT, FOOD, LAND & CLIMATE24Fahamu Subject ClassificationPOLITCS & ECONOMICS24Fahamu Subject ClassificationEBOOKS (PDFs)24Fahamu Subject ClassificationEPUBS93TVF93KCM0101Higher education, undergraduates, postgraduates0300<P>
Food security and asset possession of small producers in developing countries has been severely undermined over many years. The old primitive accumulation of capital – by seizing resources from colonies – was only temporarily halted by independence struggles. Today the advanced capitalist world, whose large scale agriculture cannot meet its own consumption needs, angles to control the superior productive capacity of developing countries for both food and agrofuels. Monopolistic control of food distribution, increased prices of foods and farm inputs, and transnational capital's concessioning of land for food and agrofuel production have created a new scramble for land.</p>
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At the same time neoliberal reforms have increased unemployment, deepened debt, led to land and livestock losses, reduced per capita food production and decreased nutritional standards. The dominant response to this agrarian crisis has been to reinforce the incorporation of the peasantry into volatile world markets and to extend land alienation, increasing import dependence.</p>
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This book shows how the peasantry's increasingly active resistance has the potential to undermine political stability in third world countries.</p>
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Patnaik argues that generating livelihoods and genuine development for the majority demands the encouragement of labour-intensive petty production, a rethinking about which agricultural commodities are produced, the redistribution of the means of food production and increased social investment in rural development. Food sovereignty requires policies that defend the land rights of small producers. Voluntary co-operation will permit economies of scale, higher productivity and incomes, and allow the mass of the people to live their lives with dignity.</p>
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At the same time neoliberal reforms have increased unemployment, deepened debt, led to land and livestock losses, reduced per capita food production and decreased nutritional standards. The dominant response to this agrarian crisis has been to reinforce the incorporation of the peasantry into volatile world markets and to extend land alienation, increasing import dependence. <br />
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This book shows how the peasantry's increasingly active resistance has the potential to undermine political stability in third world countries. <br />
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Patnaik argues that generating livelihoods and genuine development for the majority demands the encouragement of labour-intensive petty production, a rethinking about which agricultural commodities are produced, the redistribution of the means of food production and increased social investment in rural development. Food sovereignty requires policies that defend the land rights of small producers. Voluntary co-operation will permit economies of scale, higher productivity and incomes, and allow the mass of the people to live their lives with dignity.0400<p>Preface<br />
Issa Shivji</p>
<p>Part One – The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era<br />
Utsa Patnaik<br />
1Introduction<br />
2 Advanced country living standards and developing country lands<br />
3 Was there an agricultural revolution in England?<br />
4 The fallacy of Ricardo's theory<br />
5 The unacceptably high cost of free trade<br />
6 The new primitive accumulation and the land question today<br />
7 Concluding remarks<br />
Bibliography<br />
Appendix to Part One</p>
<p>Part Two – Moyo on Patnaik: a Focus on Southern Africa<br />
Rebuilding African Peasantries: inalienability of land rights and collective food sovereignty in Southern Africa? <br />
Sam Moyo<br />
1Introduction: African peasantries and agrarian transformation<br />
2Primitive accumulation by dispossession in Africa: trends<br />
3The crisis of capitalism and renewed land grabbing towards plantation economies<br />
4Technological repression under neoliberalism<br />
5Unequal trade and agrarian compression<br />
6Concluding remarks<br />
7References<br />
Index<br />
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